ECR MINERALS plc

("ECR Minerals" or the "Company")

Drilling Underway at the Creswick Project

ECR Minerals plc (LON:ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce that further to the announcement of 11 December 2023 (link here), the Company has confirmed that access to the relevant sites has been granted and accordingly reverse circulation ("RC") drilling programme has commenced at the Creswick gold project in central Victoria, Australia.  

Drilling is underway at Kuboid Hill and Davey Road prospects (See Figure 1 below), both of which have previously provided evidence of gold mineralisation from soil analysis and rock chip sampling.

Figure 1: Creswick Gold Project

As previously announced, the Company expects that approximately 1,200 metres of reverse circulation drilling in aggregate will be completed at around 10 - 12 locations at Creswick.  Following drilling, and allowing for laboratory closures over the holiday period, assay results are anticipated to be available midway through the first quarter of 2024.

ECR Chief Operating Officer Mike Whitlow commented: "In less than 12 weeks, the Company has gone through a complete step change in approach. We have sufficient resources and budget for activities that will take us well into 2024, and whilst it's exciting to be drilling, it's more encouraging to be a part of a multifaceted approach which we believe will create shareholder value."

Further updates will be provided in due course.

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd ("MGA") has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (Tambo gold project).

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd ("LUX") which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km2 in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), Mercator Gold Australia Pty Limited has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited.

ECR holds a 90% interest in the Danglay gold project; an advanced exploration project located in a prolific gold and copper mining district in the north of the Philippines, which has a 43-101 compliant resource. ECR also holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina and can potentially receive up to US$2.7 million in aggregate across all licences.